Just heard the sad news that Ken Wilson died yesterday following a dementia related illness. Ken was 75 and has been in a nursing home in Sydenham, London for over a year.
Ken's superb series of Classic, Hard and Extreme Rock plus Big Walks, Classic Walks, Wild Walks books were hugely inspiring and influential to me not to mention his Mountain Magazine compulsive reading for a young wannabe climber.
I feel honoured to have meet Ken many times out and about in the hills and always enjoyed the banter.
A man who shook the rafters of outdoor journalism and inspired a generation, this is truly the end of an era.
RIP